54 Hours: The Gladbeck Hostage Crisis

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Release Date

3/7/2018

Runtime

2 eps, 180 mins

Genres

Drama Crime

Overview

The largest pinball event in Europe ever takes place. The largest hall that Gladbeck has to offer is used for this. There are approx. 150 devices in it. The documentary accompanies Gladbeck’s Kevin Abramcyk and his friends. For them, the event will make their dream come true. There they run into Ralf Richter - a Ruhrpot icon. It couldn’t get any better for the friends. The world’s best pinball players fight for the title here.

Status

Ended

Original Language

German

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A real-time chronicle of a kidnapping and armed standoff that gripped a German town, unfolding with the grinding tension of events beyond anyone's control. The series captures how a desperate crime spirals into a media circus that transforms the hostages, perpetrators, and public into unwilling participants in a tragedy.